Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
GEORGE ORWELLEvery war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
More George Orwell Quotes
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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
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The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
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Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
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It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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The only good human being is a dead one.
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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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